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Pestilence meaning
Any epidemic disease that is highly contagious, infectious, virulent and devastating. | Anything harmful to morals or public order.
Example sentences (20)
And may Xi Jinping be afflicted with a pestilence of bat-boils!
Gretel (Sophia Lillis) and her younger brother Hansel (Sammy Leakey) left home during a bad period when pestilence and famine ravaged the land.
Have you considered this pandemic may be the same power that brought pestilence and plagues to Egypt as described in Exodus, the second book of the Bible?
However, pestilence is not so conspicuous within Shakespeare’s works themselves – perhaps out of a desire to provide his audiences with light relief.
No surprise that the Jehovah’s Witnesses gleefully announce this pestilence proves we are living in the “final part of the last days”.
Pestilence scratched the back of his head.
Pestilence went for more pretzels and saw clumps of hair sticking to his hand.
The world's three leading religions have survived famines, plagues, pestilence, and wars.
Through seven years they battle pestilence, predation, hurricane-force winds, algal blooms and dying livestock.
Today the non-Biblical word for pestilence is pandemic.
We, whether we like it or not, are the pestilence.
While I concede it may alter the flight schedule of the local airlines and shrink the number of flights per day, I must hasten to add that in dealing with a pestilence of this magnitude, nothing should be left to chance.
She heads for Pestilence, who takes on the guise of James Hudson.
We see Pestilence’s spirit go free.
His flocks are taken by Bedouins, crops wiped out by pestilence.
It is a very bitter pill to swallow that hopelessness is stalking the land like a pestilence and life is increasingly becoming unbearable.
She said they seek to bring an end to the “pestilence” of such violence.
The album was recorded with longtime producer V. Santura (Triptykon, Pestilence) at Woodshed Studios in Landshut, Germany.
The whole feature is pretty ace on paper, and with each district having a meter that represents general pestilence and wellbeing, you’d best get to crafting cures and playing the good doctor if you want everyone to make it through.
Until recently I thought “manifestation” was a term reserved for pestilence, or those who believe in ghosts.